June 12, 2011

Waka+artwork - Saigyo

Having read something about Saigyo, I remembered a artwork I did some time ago for Saigyo's waka. Saigyo wrote this wake to express his wavering thought when he became a priest, leaving behind all his secular life.

Waka has more words than haiku, and that makes it rather difficult to add artwork like I do to haiku. More words means that waka more or less says all. Adding artwork often become redundant, making it difficult to maintain equality between poem and artwork.Nevertheless, I tried, and here it is.

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Returned from Tokyo last night. During to and from Tokyo, I read an ebook titled "The Paris Wife" by Paula Mclain. It is a story about Hemingway and his wife, seen from the wife's point of view. Interesting reading, and I felt the four-hour trip one way much shorter.

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A haiga (haiku+artwork) artist. A priest of Tenrikyo.
The advisor of World Haiku Association, and the judge of WHA Haiga Contest (http://www.worldhaiku.net/).
Living in Tenri, Japan, near a city called Nara. My full name is Kuniharu Shimizu: seehaikuhere(at)gmail(dot)com